Re: [biofuel] Ornithologist pushes for awareness of birds' biggest threat: glass

2004-02-07 Thread murdoch
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:40:32 +0900, you wrote: >Another perspective on the recent tussle over wind generation and birds... K > > >"The heart of this is to get a piece of glass that will solve this >problem. We can't say that we have that yet," he said. "But I'm more >encouraged than ever that we

Re: [biofuel] Re: WVO heater for shop - The Sawdust Stove

2004-02-07 Thread doug
& its sure a doozy designing curved staircases! My house has curved staircases running between 2 curved walls, that look even, but when you try & lay the treads out There is a trick to do it, so email me if you wish to find out... regards Doug On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:41 am, Friedrich Fries

[biofuel] Ornithologist pushes for awareness of birds' biggest threat: glass

2004-02-07 Thread Keith Addison
Another perspective on the recent tussle over wind generation and birds... K --- http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-03/s_12704.asp Ornithologist pushes for awareness of birds' biggest threat: glass Tuesday, February 03, 2004 By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Daniel Klem J

[biofuel] Global Warming Makeover

2004-02-07 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17748 Global Warming Makeover By Audrey Schulman, Grist Magazine February 3, 2004 Twenty years ago, it seemed that virtually everyone smoked. You couldn't sit in a restaurant for five minutes without stinking of cigarettes for hours. Now, in state af

Re: [biofuel] Straight ethanol in gasoline engine

2004-02-07 Thread Terry Wilhelm
150 to 160 proof works best if using straight alcohol in a engine. If you plan to blend at any percent gasoline/ alcohol a higher proof works better. If you are considering a carb automobile engine, I can recommend a shop that does a great job modifing carbs for straight alcohol will little c

Re: [biofuel] Re: WVO heater for shop - The Sawdust Stove

2004-02-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Fritz No simple answer... How about posting a picture of how to build a curved staircase? LOL! Anyway, like most lists these days, this one is set to reject attachments, as an essential anti-virus measure - you can't get a virus from this list. Also no html, text-only ASCII messages, so yo

[biofuel] Copper reactor vessel

2004-02-07 Thread dermot
Hi, I'm building my own biodiesel processor and I want to use a copper immersion heater vessel to mix the used oil and methoxide. I'm going to use Aleks Kac's two stage method. The vessel is already cone shaped and has the heater already installed so it seems perfect for the job. My worry is tha

[biofuel] Straight ethanol in gasoline engine

2004-02-07 Thread j_schearer
Will 100% ethanol damage a gasoline engine, or does it have to be blended with gasoline? Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list a

Re: [biofuel] Cold Climate & Commercial Studies...

2004-02-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Joey >Hey Folks, > I can recall reading a study that employed the use of various >commercial vehicles as the platform for testing various mixes of WVO and >Biodiesel. FOR THE LIFE OF ME I can't find the sucker. I recall the use of >a couple types of trucks, maybe a bus or two? As wel

Re: [biofuel] Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Ken >Hi Bob > >I agree with your analysis. Additional energy is >being added to the atmosphere immediately by heat >released from burning and perhaps by greenhouse >effects in the future. H2O is a more effective >greenhouse gas than CO2 and is rarely mentioned. I >read an article by Germ

Re: [biofuel] Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread jtcava
Ken and Keith, Someone mentioned graphs of global warming.I am including a link for a site which may or may not have what you are looking for.It is interesting in it's own right as well. Regards, John 3G on W3: The Graet Globe Gallery on the World Wide Web

Re: [biofuel] Re: Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread robert luis rabello
Ken Gotberg wrote: > Hi Robert > > Actually Luis and Walter Alvarez found an iridium > spike attributable to exterritorial causes that > happened about the time dinosaurs are thought to have > died out. Yes, that I remember as well. However, I don't recall an extra terrestrial source bei

Re: [biofuel] Re: WVO heater for shop - The Sawdust Stove

2004-02-07 Thread Friedrich Friesinger
Hey Bryan, you wann give me a brake here? When the question arrived i answerd as quick i could.Iwas not ready to support things with Pictures nor Plans! Now a question to you guys from a newbie in computertechnics How do i post a Picture?is the list able to support pictures? I am ok to make pict

Re: [biofuel] Re: Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Robert Actually Luis and Walter Alvarez found an iridium spike attributable to exterritorial causes that happened about the time dinosaurs are thought to have died out. http://town.morrison.co.us/dinosaur/extinction/meteor.html Also Buckyballs http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=P

Re: [biofuel] Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Keith Just one more reply >The results of the added energy to the >global climate systems are not. What is clear is the anthropogenic >impacts are likely to destabilize the climate in a number of ways , Why do you talk as if it's something that may happen in the future Bob? It

Re: [biofuel] Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Keith A long reply that could take some time to answer thoughtfully. In short, Chaos theory in fact provides the opportunity to “see” the global (meaning domain) behavior of a nonlinear system without being able to know the details. A wonderful theory in fact where hopelessly complex systems

Re: [biofuel] articles pls...

2004-02-07 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Ivy IBM has a supercomputer devoted to fuel combustion among other things. There may be info available from one of the researchers in this area. http://www.tc.cornell.edu/news/Releases/1995/ibm.grand.challenge.html IBM Claims It Has Fastest Computer & Starts Solving Grand Challenges … Impr

Re: [biofuel] chemical means of drying WVO

2004-02-07 Thread Appal Energy
Julian, Congrats on the Fulbright. Chemical "drying" of water? You'll probably find time and gravity to be your best and least costly friends. Once you get the more saturated carbon chains to liquify almost all water settles out within 24 hours at 100-120*F. As the feedstock is generally heated

Re: [biofuel] physical mixing vs time and alcohol results

2004-02-07 Thread Appal Energy
> If some of you can't handle having the list in general asked > about mixing [snip] > after you > replied that you prefer waiting, no need to reply with such a public > flame. "YOU" need to go back to third grade and listed to what the > teacher said about being polite and silent. Polite would

Re: [biofuel] Global Warming

2004-02-07 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Bob I agree with your analysis. Additional energy is being added to the atmosphere immediately by heat released from burning and perhaps by greenhouse effects in the future. H2O is a more effective greenhouse gas than CO2 and is rarely mentioned. I read an article by German researchers cla

[biofuel] Cold Climate & Commercial Studies...

2004-02-07 Thread Joey Hundert
Hey Folks, I can recall reading a study that employed the use of various commercial vehicles as the platform for testing various mixes of WVO and Biodiesel. FOR THE LIFE OF ME I can't find the sucker. I recall the use of a couple types of trucks, maybe a bus or two? As well, it may have st

[biofuel] Re: WVO heater for shop - The Sawdust Stove

2004-02-07 Thread look4bryan
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see a link to a picture or drawing for the stove. Can you post or repost the link of the referenced picture, for the group to take a look at? Sounds like an interesting project, but I like pictures to go along with the verbage :-). Bryan Biofuel at Journey

[biofuel] CAR and DRIVER mag march 2004

2004-02-07 Thread MALONEKR
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Re: [biofuel] WVO heater for shop

2004-02-07 Thread Stan Walker
Doug You of all people (an Aussie) should have recognised that my intention was to gleen all the info I could by pretending to be lets say a bit slow. It was foolish of me to say I was an Aussie I should have said I was Irish. Everyone knows we are the smartest people in the world. I am not in

[biofuel] chemical means of drying WVO

2004-02-07 Thread jdautremontsmith
[I sent this message a couple of days ago and it hasn't appeared to come through yet, apologies if it eventually comes through twice.] Hello, Does anyone on this list have any experience with chemical means of drying WVO? Right now I'm heating it to boil out the water but I'm trying to figu

[biofuel] sawdust stove

2004-02-07 Thread jimweis47
this series of posts appears to me to be describing a stove that can be found by entering "rocket stove" in any search engine. Description of center hole and air source from the bottom. The rocket stove uses wood fed in thru the air source. I am still interested in what machinery is used to

[biofuel] physical mixing vs time and alcohol results

2004-02-07 Thread Paul B.Schmidt
Andreas et al, Been a busy few days but wanted to throw out a thanks for the other ideas from yours and the other offline responses. My batch is working well and had a nice separation in the product - nice and clear. I'm still hoping to do a test on the 75%, 91%, 100% isopropyl alcohols soon

[biofuel] (fwd) More progress needed on British biofuel

2004-02-07 Thread murdoch
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=605&id=114662004 More progress needed on biofuel VIC ROBERTSON THE government is continuing to stonewall moves towards the creation of British biofuels industry - at least publicly. But industry observers remain confident that progress is being made behin

Re: Fuelmeister was Re: [biofuel] Filtering biodiesel

2004-02-07 Thread Appal Energy
Hey Keith, Mike Pelly is a man after a biodieseler's heart. http://www.olympiagreenfuels.com/ Something tells me there are more than a couple of solenoids at work here. That's a grand step up from an ear jack connected to a timer/buzzer and a swarm of gate valves. Who knows. Might have to inv

[biofuel] Federal Court Rejects DEA Ban on Hemp Food - Final Ruling

2004-02-07 Thread Appal Energy
Federal Court Rejects DEA Ban on Hemp Food Court Tells DEA it Cannot Regulate Naturally-Occurring THC in Hemp Food Landmark Decision Opens Way for Expansion of Hemp Food Industry SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- U.S. COURT of APPEALS for the NINTH CIRCUIT -- The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), representi

Re: [biofuel] WVO heater for shop

2004-02-07 Thread doug
Whats this: Only an Aussie!! We are the smartest people on Earth, & also the most modest! (Did you say you live in Canberra? If so it could explain it: the cultural vacuum has sucked your brains out! (Which explains all about our Politicians.) For Yank illiterates Canberra=Washington (very TI

Re: [biofuel] Re: Current Ice Age

2004-02-07 Thread Bill Clark
Sorry about that. I posted a hastily and poorly written statement. The points I was attempting to make are: 1. Plants are tougher than you think. 2. Plants spread faster than you think 3. Ice in Arkansas does not mean snow in Panama. Thanks for the corrections, Bill Clark - Original Messag

[biofuel] (fwd) Fw: Message from Robert Redford

2004-02-07 Thread murdoch
So far as I know, this is from him - Original Message - From: "Robert Redford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: Message from Robert Redford Dear NRDC Member, Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his congressional allies will try once ag